Laugh Your Way in Baharona

As the ladies shared in the previous blog post, tonight Monique and I went to pastor Julio´s church in Baharona and shared ¨The Tale of Two Brains" , disc one, with about 25 couples. By the time we got started it was after 8 p.m. but we are quickly discovering, that is early in the evening here in the Dominican Republic. The community was alive and bustling with people, much activity. I later found out that the dinner hour is around 9 or 10 p.m. We are thankful that Casa Betesada serves dinner on U.S. time.

Our whole team, with the exception of Tate, came to the seminar to support us. What a blessing! Tate is making some great friends amongst the "I Love Baseball" guys, so he stayed back to hang out with them. The seminar was very well recieved, people engaged with Mark Gungor and laughing. The women really connected with the "Nothing Box". We had several couples come up and thank us, expecially pastor Julio and his wife Marisa.

The teaching is so cross-cultural, which I suspected, but is was great to see the response from the men and women first hand. Tomorrow night we will return for another session.

Tomorrow will be our last day of basketball clinic with a tournament planned for Friday morning. Yes, Friday morning, at what hour you ask?, the first games will begin around 8 a.m. Yikes! This will be good though as we can hopefully finish up before the intense afternoon heat and humidity gets cranked up. It is going to be interesting to see how our American team will match up against one of the teams. The guys from a Dominican barrio, Don Bosco, are really pretty good, far superior in skills to the Haitian guys from the bateys. We could have our hands full playing the Don Bosco guys.

Hasta la manana!

Vic for the team